Word: revolutionizing
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Free trade has spurred some class resentment too-an effect foreseen by Karl Marx, who predicted in 1848 that it would intensify strains between bourgeoisie and proletariat and thus speed a revolution. In a TIME/CNN poll last week, 58% of those surveyed thought free-trade agreements were "mostly good" for...
That should soon change. Two weeks ago, a space probe called NEAR was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a trajectory that will carry it to within 20 miles of Eros, where it will remain in orbit for a year of intensive study. The mission should give astronomers important...
The Populist Party that arose from that ferment was short-lived, but the common-man sentiments that it crystallized lived on. Separately or together they ran through the presidential campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and Prohibition, through Teddy Roosevelt's Progressives, the left-wing labor movement and the right-wing...
Though Yeltsin may personify the post-Soviet era, all the elements of a successful politburo-style road show were in place: the mink-hatted acolytes, the handpicked entourage of veterans, the phalanx of sullen, gray-coated security agents. But as Yeltsin delivered his rambling speech, it was apparent that something...
In the wake of the sexual revolution came AIDS. Once the realization had sunk into the human psyche that sex can be life-threatening, the nature of relationships in our society had to change. And there were two main roads our culture could follow. The first was to return to...